The Gaza Strip is bordered on the south by the sands and eternal mystique of Egypt, on the west by the beautiful Mediterranean Sea, its inviting beaches a place where dreams of peaceful tourist resorts once flourished, and on the east it is bordered by what used to be Palestine. In 1948, Israel announced itself a state withinPalestine, and began systematically forcing the Palestinians off their ancestral lands in order to build Jewish-only settlements. (1)
For almost two years, the Israeli military forces have completely surrounded Gaza. Israel has built tall, ugly walls around the borders of Gaza, including the border between Gaza and Egypt. The Israeli military forces patrol and attack the civilians of Gaza from the air with US helicopters, F-16s, and with drones. Israeli/ US tanks and bulldozers attack from the ground, storming through Gaza villages and refugee camps, destroying homes and killing more Palestinian victims. Israeli gunboats sit poised in the once peaceful waters off Gaza's shore, intent upon shelling unarmed fishing boats and massacring families daring to enjoy picnics on the beach. With all Gaza borders tightly closed, and with no way out by land, sea or air, approximately 1.5 million Palestinians are trapped in Gaza making it the largest and most inhumane prison on earth.
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other Canadian politicians, the CBC and the Corporate media, all remain silent in
light of these horrific crimes?"
Because the entire aforementioned group is fair, blanced and of course,
'measured'.
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ISRAEL'S HISTORY OF TERROR<br />
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On the other hand, senior officials of the Israeli government, the Mossad, and Israeli military intelligence, an organization known as "Aman," have a long history of carrying out false-flag terror attacks against the United States and Britain, at least as far back as the bombing of Jerusalem's King David Hotel on July 22, 1946.<br />
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The bombing of the luxury hotel was ordered by Menachem Begin, the head of the Irgun, an active Zionist terrorist organization during the 1930s and 40s. Begin later became prime minister of Israel, a position he held during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which was led by Ariel Sharon, then minister of defense.<br />
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Menachem Begin, the Polish-born head of the terrorist gang Irgun, and the King David Hotel he ordered bombed in 1946. "Everything was coordinated with the Haganah," prime minister Begin later told the Israel Broadcasting Authority.<br />
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Irgun and Haganah terrorists, disguised as Arabs, set off 7 large demolition bombs in the basement of the King David Hotel, which was the base for the British Secretariat and the military command in British-occupied Palestine. 91 people were killed, most of them staff of the secretariat.<br />
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The attack on the hotel was the deadliest attack against the British in the history of the Mandate. To this day, the Zionist bombing of the King David Hotel is the terrorist act which has caused the greatest number of casualties in the history of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Zionist extremists, however, are proud of the terrorist bombing as one of their actions that compelled the British to give up the Mandate over Palestine. <br />
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David Ben Gurion, the head of the Haganah militia, supported the bombing. Although the Haganah publicly condemned the bombing afterwards, many researchers insist that the Haganah directly authorized the bombing.<br />
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David Ben Gurion (on left), the Polish-born leader of the Haganah, authorized the bombing of the King David Hotel. Ben Gurion, who developed Zionist terrorism as a tool to coerce the West, meets with his junior partners in terror, Shimon Peres and Moshe Dayan, <br />
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"Everything was coordinated with the Haganah," former prime minister and Irgun leader Menachem Begin declared in a film clip from the Israel Broadcasting Authority's "Scroll of Fire" series.<br />
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NETANYAHU'S SUPPORT FOR TERRORISTS<br />
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Members of the Irgun, which carried out scores of terror bombings in the 1930s and 40s (and its political successors in the Likud party) hold the world view that "political violence and terrorism" are "legitimate tools in the Jewish national struggle for the Land of Israel," according to Arie Perliger and Leonard Weinberg, authors of "Jewish Self Defense and Terrorist Groups Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel: Roots and Traditions."<br />
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In July 2006, the former prime minister and leader of the Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu, attended a two-day 60th anniversary celebration of the King David Hotel bombing with former terrorists of the Irgun and Haganah. The event was organized by the Menachem Begin Heritage House, the University of Haifa, and the Association of IZL Fighters.<br />
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The seminar was held "to mark the 60th anniversary of the bombing of the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, by members of the United Resistance Movement (Haganah and Irgun)," The Jerusalem Post noted in its pre-event notices. The newspaper specifically noted that members of the Haganah and Irgun had been involved in the terrorist bombing.<br />
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One of the terrorists even led a tour of the hotel he had bombed. The fact that the American-educated right-wing politician and terror specialist, "Bibi" Netanyahu, had participated in a two-day event celebrating the bombing of the King David Hotel was reported in the Jerusalem Post, and in leading newspapers in Britain, France, and India – but not a single word about the event was printed in the controlled press of the United States, the nation supposedly fighting a "War on Terror." <br />
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"It's very good," Benjamin Netanyahu, Zionist extremist and terror specialist, said on 9-11 - about the attacks which were thought to have killed more than 6,000 Americans.<br />
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Netanyahu's conspicuous role as the main speaker at an event celebrating an act of terrorism was not reported in any U.S. newspaper until Patrick Buchanan mentioned it in his article entitled "Moral culpability for Qana," on August 2, 2006. <br />
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Rubbing our noses in our own cravenness, "Bibi" Netanyahu took time out a week ago to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the terror attack on the King David Hotel by Menachem Begin's Irgun, an attack that killed 92 people, among them British nurses. This was not a terrorist act, Bibi explained, because Irgun telephoned a 15-minute warning to the hotel before the bombs went off.<br />
Right. And those children in Qana should not have ignored Israeli leaflets warning them to clear out of southern Lebanon.<br />
Our Israeli friends appear to be playing us for fools.<br />
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"TERRORISTS IN DISGUISE"<br />
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In 1946, The Times described the Irgun as "terrorists in disguise." <br />
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Sarah Agassi, 80, was one of the "terrorists in disguise" involved in the bombing of the King David Hotel.<br />
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She and a fellow agent had cased out the hotel. Her brother and other terrorists had disguised themselves as Arabs delivering milk and brought seven milk cans, each containing 50 kg. (110 lbs.) of explosives, into the basement of the hotel.<br />
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There were important strategic reasons for the bombing, according to the Jerusalem Post of July 27, 2006:<br />
The bombing was a direct response to the events of the British Operation Agatha and the Black Sabbath of June 29, 1946, during which 17,000 British soldiers confiscated weapons and intelligence documents and arrested thousands of leaders of the Yishuv and Hagana activists.<br />
The documents, brought to the King David headquarters, revealed most of the Yishuv's operational plans and incriminated the Jewish Agency in the leadership of the United Resistance, as well as the IZL and the Lehi, against the British.<br />
The evidence would be used to try the Jewish activists and, quite possibly, to hang them.<br />
Twenty-five fighters took part in the carefully-planned and precisely executed bombing. Six of them, dressed as Arab laborers, placed the seven milk cans filled with 350 kg. of explosives, fitted with timers set to go off in 40 minutes, around the central support beam of the hotel's southern wing. Others spread explosives along the roads leading to the hotel to prevent reinforcements and emergency medical crews from arriving at the scene.<br />
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NETANYAHU'S TERRORIST ROOTS<br />
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psiclone, if you haven't already seen this, please take 1 1/2 hour out of your time and watch this video; Occupation 101<br />
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2451908450811690589">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2451908450811690589</a><br />
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This 'must see' video will give you a good glimpse into the history of Palestine and some insight of the Zionist crimes and apartheid policies against a more or less defenseless people.<br />
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"We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village." – Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha’aretz, April 4, 1969.<br />
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"Among ourselves, it must be clear that there is no place in the country for both peoples together. With the Arabs we shall not achieve our aim of being an independent people in this country. The only solution is Eretz-Israel, at least the west part of Eretz-Israel, without Arabs . . . And there is no other way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries. Transfer all of them, not one village or tribe should remain . . ." –Joseph Weitz, entry in his diary for 1940 (quoted in his article: ‘A solution to the Refugee Problem: An Israeli State with a small Arab Minority’, published in Davar, 29 September, 1967.<br />
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"Because we took the land this gives us the image of being bad, of being aggressive. The Jews always considered that the land belonged to them, but in fact it belonged to the Arabs. I would go further: I would say the original source of this conflict lies with Israel, with the Jews – and you can quote me." – Yehoshofat Harkabi, former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence, in ‘Peace Won't be a Plane Ticket to Cairo,’ International Armed Forces Journal, October 1973, p.30.<br />
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"It is unacceptable that nations made up of people who have only just come down from the trees should take themselves for world leaders . . . How can such primitive beings have an opinion of their own?" – Yitzhak Shamir, in reference to the black African nations who voted in support of the 1975 U.N. resolution, which denounced Zionism as a form of racism, in Yediot Ahronot, November 14, 1975.<br />
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"The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war." – Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.<br />
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"Let us not today fling accusations at the murderers. Who are we that we should argue against their hatred? For eight years now they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their very eyes, we turn into our homestead the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers have lived." – Moshe Dyan, 1953, quoted by Uri Avneri in Israel without Zionists, p. 134.<br />
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"I don't understand your optimism. Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country." – David Ben Gurion, 1956, quoted by Nahum Goldmann in The Jewish Paradox, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99.<br />
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"We take the land first and the law comes after." – Mr. Palmon, Arab affairs adviser to the Mayor of Jerusalem, quoted in The Guardian, 26 April 1972.<br />
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"We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise solution. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism." – General Yehoshafat Harkabi, Ma'ariv, 2 November 1973.<br />
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"To maintain the status quo will not do. We have to set up a dynamic state bent upon expansion." – David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel, The Philosophical Press, New York, 1954, p. 419.<br />
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"During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road." – Moshe Dyan, Ma'ariv, 7 July 1968.<br />
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And more at:<a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/08/quotes-from-zionists.html">http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/08/quotes-from-zionists.html</a>
There has never been an independent nation of 'Palestine'. The area has been ruled by amost every other major power in the world since the dawn of the first millennium. Using that as an excuse to kill women and children randomly makes them no better than the Isrealis.
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Last fall I came across this article from one Joachim Martillo, an activist living in Boston. I can't think of a better summary of the 'Palestinian issue' than this brilliant peice of writing from this Ashkenazi Jew;<br />
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Come to think of it, the horrible truth about the artificial state of Israel and the deadly cult that is Zionism I have learned almost exclusievly from Jews. People like Israel Shamir, Israel Shahak, Gilad Atzmon, Ilan Pappe and Norman Finkelstein. These people who reveal the naked truth are branded as 'self-hating' by Zionists.<br />
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"Palestine is authentic and genuine, Israel is artificial and imposed" writes Gilad Atzmon, the brave jewish dissident, musician and former israeli soldier, now living in the UK.
In both North and South continents now known as North America and South America there were indigenises population on the land, they too where not nations as nations are known as today. To me there is a moral question the supersedes whatever gak is used to justify the dispossessing of those who have bee settled on the on the lands in question for eons.
That is the question all other issues arise out of that! Resulting behaviours are a separate issue, *and* become attached to the initial action which set off a chain of events.
The question, “What would you do if a foreign nation kicked you and your family off your land” is legitimate enough. one group had possession and a bunch of greedy bastards who wanted want belonged to someone else by their possession was taken by subterfuge and under the colour of law. This bullshit paper game is what created and created to this day the mess the word is in.
Hernando de Soto is known as the Darling of the right-wing set for the reasons found in wiki and stated below.
Hernando de Soto (1941-) is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of property rights. He is the president of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), located in Lima.
He, and those who subscribe to the papered up societies by force of an invented system of lies (law) ride roughshod over all the see as beneath them and who have possession of something desired by these scumbags with pens, and armed might. The pen is mightier than the sword? You’re fucking right it is when it is wield by unscrupulous bastards using trickery to take what they want. These mother-rapers have done throughout history and will continue to do so into the end times the same strategies.
What part of this are you all missing?
“ The Bar, the pulpit and the press nefariously combined the cry up an usurpt power, and strike it right divine.”
The power of pen and paper has stolen more land and sanctioned more death and destruction than most folks are able to get their heads around. Although I and those who think in a similar fashion are in the minority we can spot the confidence game known as law. The Israelis have no moral right to behave like Berserkers, nor do those now recognised as Palestinians have the moral right to behave in the manner they now do as suicide bombers.
I agree that the Palistinians are no better than the Israelis on the issue of killing, but on the issue of retaliation for the theft of porperty , they are within ther rights.
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Putting that aside for a moment, going by your logic, do you believe that the Native North American genocides were justified?
there is no difference. The zionists collaborated with the nazis in the 30s and throughout WWII, that has been documented.
"In it's purest form German nazism is the assertion that Aryans have the right to plunder and kill non-Aryans. In its purest form Ashkenazi Zionism is the assertion that Jews have the right to plunder and kill non-Jews." writes Joachim Martillo.
Ahh, Strawman and Emotive language fallicies. I like it!
"Do I believe any Genocide is justified?" would be a more appropriate question. Well, obviously, no.
But Natives aren't lobbing rockets at innocent women and children now, are they?
Instead, they are starting to prosper with the advances and allowances given to them because of a collective guilt of what our forefathers did. I'm sure they wouldn't receive those benefits, should they start lobbing rockets at innocents, ether.
Using your logic, should Natives start using these tactics to try to force settlements regarding land 'stolen' from them? Does the tactic of 'blockade' hurt or help them and their cause?
As Dio points out, Palestinians are within their rights to try to reclaim land they believe is theirs - but their tactics leave much to be desired.
A man I respect once said - "I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
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